True Hands-Free Driving and Bluetooth Voice Dialing is in Android 2.2

I’m so stoked the Android 2.2 software update started rolling out (for Nexus One owners only, plus you can manually install if you don’t want to wait). In checking out all the new features I accidentally stumbled across true hands-free Bluetooth voice activated dialing in native Froyo without a third party app (which is lacking in Android). This is great as many states govern you cannot operate the phone to start a call while driving but a one-hand one-touch initiation is acceptable.

Simply press the button on your Bluetooth earpiece, the Bluetooth Voice Dialer app launches and asks you “Speak Now…”, you say “Call John Smith” and it calls the default number you’ve saved. You can also say “Call John Smith at Work” if you have multiple numbers stored. If the app doesn’t hear which number of many you may have stored, it asks which, then you can clarify and it dials. You do not need to touch the phone at all.

this is still insufficient as this voice recognicion system fits only the English language speakers. the old WM 6.1 and WM 6.5 voice dial contact/program audio tag are much more faster, easy to be used, bluetooth ready since my grandma was young. I am very upset about not having this option in Android. If you do not speak English you can not use it. More to the point, even if you are an English language speaker your contacts will be accordingly your native language. This is a lack of respect while this operating system is addressed to the entire world customers…
it was so simple, add a voice tag to the contact, press the voice dial assigned button, speak the tag and that’s it.

It is an ugly voice dial app released by google.
I am not a native english speaker and it is useless for me and all my country – names in contacts are NOT in english.
Piece of shit, not a voice dial. Voice TAGS – THAT must be the case! Not such an ugly “recognition”.

Heck, why would we have to learn English? We are not all Americans. As you said we’re foreigners, we eat other food than burgers, we speak other languages and we have many other differences. It’s all these cultural differences that make the World so rich and interesting…

Now on a technical note: you mean that for example we should be able to pronouce a name such as “Kareltje Hooijmaaijer” in an english’ized manner similar to what voice recognition will do? Or we should try to enter such names in our phonebooks with an english’ized spelling that would render how it’s correctly pronounced in our foreign language?

Damn, good luck!…

Btw, it always amuses me when english natives (foreigners in my point of view) try to pronouce my own name. They simply can’t

I agree with JimStar: simple voice tags wouldn’t set to high a standard and would work in any country, for any language.

you do realise “Foreigners” built your mobile product. If you look under the battery you will find a nifty little “Made in China”. China is not a town somewhere in America. It is a country far away from you that makes most electronic products you encounter in your every day life, troll fag.

Hmm…. bill.
I have no problems with the English language. As a matter of fact, I prefer to have my various operating systems in English.
But I have problems with all my contacts. I have asked them, but very few are willing to change their names to English names.
I take your comment was ment as a joke. If not………………….

I have been a happy user of WM for a long time. And, as others here have pointed out; it had an excellent solution with voice tags on the contacts. Very disappointing that Android has not come up with a similar solution.

I don’t see it on my new Galaxy S2. I long-press the BT answer button, and all it does is call the last person I dialed. No voice prompts, no Bluetooth Voice Dialer app.! What’s going on?? This was something that every phone since my original RAZR could do!

I have LGP500 phone with Android 2.2.1 (naive when it comes to blue tooth etc)
Live in Australia (yes, we speak English :-))
1. How do you link the phone to bluetooth to get the voice activation to work.
2. I did try to buy a handsfree car kit (voice) to pair with my phone. is there an app to connect my LGP500 to the Blue Ant Bluetooth care kit, or the Jabra freeway handsfree car kit; of the Supertooth HD hands free car kit? My phone will link with the Blue Ant, but won’t operate on the system.
or don’t I need one. I sometimes drive long distances with work, and it would be handy to voice answer the phone.
Thanks Turtle mother